Paul de Man
Belgian-American literary theorist who, with Derrida, founded deconstruction in the American academy. Allegories of Reading and Blindness and Insight are his major works. After his death, Nazi collaborationist journalism he wrote in his youth was discovered, igniting major controversy.
Works
- Allegories of ReadingDeconstructive readings of literary texts and interpretive rhetoric
- Blindness and InsightEssays on literary insight and the blindness of textual interpretation
- The Resistance to TheoryEssays defending theory's role in literary criticism and textual analysis
- Romanticism and Contemporary CriticismCritical study of romanticism and its meaning for contemporary criticism
- Aesthetic IdeologyExamination of ideology as aesthetic function in philosophical and literary texts